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Sea anemone Common

Sea anemone has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton

2

Any of many polyps, of the order Actiniaria, which occurs in marine and estuarine habitats, and which captures its food using tentacles

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
anthozoan
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
actinia
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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